Successful sea trials of my newly upgraded Nautilus took place last Saturday at nearby Langford Lake.

The new lighting system consists of 28 separate LED lights.

White LEDs for the large floodlights are putting out around 10000mcd. Yellow are at around 4000mcd, as are the two red in the wheelhouse.

I've got a whole bunch of pics on the newly created Nautilus Photo Gallery page of my website for anyone interested. There is also a short .avi of my Nautilus statically submerging in five feet of water if you're interested.

I went for simplicity. I found the proper resistor value using a calculator that I found online. I think Andy posted a few different sites in another thread here recently, so finding an online calculator should be pretty easy if you need one.

Each of my LEDs has it's own resistor. I didn't get fancy and go for any parallel or series hookups. Once the resistor is in place, they wire up just like an incandescent, one end to + and one to -. The only difference between the LEDs and the incan's are that you need to watch that your positive leads are connected properly.